Now It's Time for Some News

Welcome to another update on the world of comic strips. Not much exciting this week, but you can see for yourself:

From 3/12/09:
Comic Strip Writer Invents Word
Stephan Pastis invented a word, un-died, and it has been added the the Urban Dictionary. I'm not really sure that the Urban Dictionary is really the authority on what is and ain't a word, but it would be cool to invent a word that is recognized by somebody as being real.

From 3/16/09, 3/16/09, and 3/16/09:
Many Awards Given
Apparently the 16th of March was award day for the world of cartoonists. Three separate organizations announced award winners. I don't actually know who won or what was won because I can't think of a reason why someone that isn't a cartoonist would care.

From 3/17/09:
Newspaper Decides to Print on the Web Instead of Paper
As anyone that lives in the Pacific Northwest already knows, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer has ceased printing, at least on paper. In a move to save money, the oldest paper in Washington state has moved entirely online. No one knows how the last ditch gamble will work, but it apparently has been described as "a Huffington Post of mainstream media". I thought that newspapers hated bloggers, I guess prejudices get thrown out the window when your bankrupt.

From 3/19/09:
Rock Star Wants You to Save His Favorite Comic Strips
Eddie Vedder, of Pearl Jam(how did you not know that?), wants people to start bugging the alternative newspapers that dropped some alternative comics recently. Because everyone knows that Eddie Vedder was the editor of a newspaper before becoming a rock star and knows the secret of printing more content for less money. Something that he has been very selfish in keeping to himself.

As usual, the stories appear via the Daily Cartoonist.

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